Leeds Planning Network - Writing Neighbourhood Planning Policy

Neighbourhood Planning Workshop: Writing Neighbourhood Planning Policy 16th April 2016 #LPNLEEDS

Tony Ray Holbeck Neighbourhhood #LPNLEEDS

Holbeck Neighbourhood Plan Tony Ray Planning Aid

Holbeck Neighbourhood Area

Issues Arising • Provide signs/interpretation boards for the local history • Improve the streetscape by tree/shrub planting and bin yards • Link green spaces and add play and other equipment • Make pedestrian routes accessible and safe with more controlled crossings • Temporary use of derelict building and sites – ‘pop-up’ uses or greening/wildflower planting

• Build mix of new houses at Matthew Murray site • The Viaduct – possible pedestrian route, cycleway, with uplighting etc • Improve whole of Domestic Street Local Centre by removal of through traffic • Create a new ‘heart’ for Old Holbeck – ‘village green’, new housing and convert mills • Improve connections with surrounding areas, including Holbeck Urban Village, and city centre (‘South Bank’)

Vision • To make Holbeck a more attractive and healthier place for everyone, • it will have a thriving local centre with a range of community facilities, • a choice of quality but affordable housing, • a variety of local job opportunities, • all set in a green environment, • respecting the heritage and local character of the area, • and well connected to the city centre and adjoining neighbourhoods

Policies • For each topic/objective outlined in the vision, the existing situation is described, based on evidence and with justification, and then the planning policies aimed at helping to achieve the Vision are set out.

• These policies should not be considered in isolation: development will be subject to all the relevant policies in the Neighbourhood Plan, as well as the Leeds Local Plan policies set out in the Council’s Core Strategy and Site Allocation Plan.

• Policies in the Neighbourhood Plan should be complementary to, and in general conformity with, national guidance set out in the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF)

Housing Policies • Objective: • Carry out improvements to houses and the streets and spaces between them.

• Policy H6 – Housing Regeneration • Developments which improve the quality of the existing terraced and back to back housing stock and their setting, notably boundary treatments, bin storage, and streetscape will be supported.

• Also site specific policies – see plan.

Holbeck Housing Policies

Green Policies • • • •

Objective: Extend strategic green infrastructure.

Policy G1 Development which lies within or alongside the strategic green infrastructure should include the provision of green space and/or planting including street trees where appropriate.

Holbeck Green Policies

Heritage Policies • Objective: • Respecting and enhancing the heritage of the area.

• Policy HC1 – Industrial heritage area • Development within the area should preserve and enhance the historic, archaeological and architectural character and buildings and structures within it.

Holbeck Heritage Policies

Movement Policies • • • •

Objective: Remove through traffic.

Policy T2 – reducing congestion Developments and other proposals should aim to reduce through traffic and associated air pollution, within the neighbourhood , particularly through the local centre.

Holbeck Movement Policies

Projects/Delivery Plan • The Forum considered that planning policies alone cannot make Holbeck a more sustainable place and the delivery of projects specified in the plan was equally important.

• Within each topic therefore, there are also a number of related projects which lie outside normal planning policy, but will also contribute to achieving the Vision.

• This follows the model of Parish Plans (non-Planning matters) and VDSs (SPDs) but combines them into one document. The Examiner will only consider the Planning content.

• The Plan concludes with a Delivery Strategy which sets out likely partners for the projects, possible sources of funding and a broad timescale.

• These projects will be overseen by the Inner South Community Committee in conjunction with the local community through a successor body to the Holbeck Neighbourhood Forum, whose statutory function formally ceases when the Neighbourhood Plan is made.

Quintin Bradley Writing Planning Policy #LPNLEEDS

Writing Neighbourhood Planning Policy

What is planning policy?

• Planning policies must relate to the development and use of land • A policy in a neighbourhood plan should be clear and unambiguous.

• It should be drafted with sufficient clarity that a decision maker can apply it consistently and with confidence when determining planning applications.

How is a policy assessed?

• Policies must meet each basic condition: – appropriate having regard to national policies and advice contained in guidance issued by the Secretary of State – contributes to the achievement of sustainable development – is in general conformity with the strategic policies contained in the development plan for the area of the authority (or any part of that area).

– does not breach, and is otherwise compatible with, EU obligations

Site specific policy:

Criteria-led policy: policy with a series of requirements that a development proposal needs to meet in order to be acceptable

Generic policies: applied to all development across the neighbourhood plan area

Frome

The words you use…

• “Will be permitted…” is best used when you want to set out the requirements that will be expected from new development • “Will be supported…” is best used when you want to be proactive about encouraging certain types of development and standards

Promoting the high street

Woburn Sands

Planning for jobs

Promoting new urban living

Preventing sprawl

What not to write

Where to go for help

http://mycommunity.org.uk/

http://www.ourneighbourhoodplanning.org.uk/

• Quintin Bradley • Senior Lecturer in Planning & Housing • Q.Bradley@leedsbeckett. ac.uk

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Plenary

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